Don Parrish-Bell

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About Don Parrish-Bell

Amateur blues & rock guitarist as well as all the rest. Extensive electronic design, test and product development experience in both military and commercial applications. Background includes hardware design, analog and digital plus exposure to sofware development. Excellent problem-solving and technical writing skills as well as excellent verbal communication skills. Very adept at working in teams with individuals of diverse backgrounds. Prior security clearance. Career Highlights Worked on design and development of kiosks, laser illumination systems, LED lighting systems, and an automated machine for medical product manufacture. • Redesigned electronics and LED lighting for a photo booth project, significantly reducing cost and increasing efficiency of the product with the added task of not requiring changes to the system’s existing software • Designed 3 PC boards and cabling for a motion picture laser illumination project using Altium schematic capture and layout tools • Designed a system concept for a machine used in the manufacture of brain catheters. o Established a state diagram for the operation of the machine o Designed a system controller using an Altera CPLD o Designed the Emergency stop circuitry using Allen Bradley safety-rated components o Designed all harnesses for the system - Redesigned the NTDS product line to eliminate obsolete parts, improve reliability, and decrease cost-to-manufacture- Established an excellent rapport with customer's engineering staff. Resolved performance and application issues on new and existing products- Wrote hardware design documents, test plans and test reports for several different product lines- Performed qualification testing on Ku antenna assemblies. Specialties- Product conceptualization - Electronic and packaging design - Product test/debug, and qualification testing - Customer technical interface - Obsolescence mitigation - Technical writing